Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.